Document history
The following table describes the documentation for this release of the Amazon Billing User Guide.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Added documentation for | June 24, 2024 | |
Added new page for managing payment access using tags. Updated existing managed policies | May 31, 2024 | |
| March 27, 2024 | |
For Amazon India accounts, you can use a Unified Payment Interface (UPI) payment method to pay your Amazon bills. | March 14, 2024 | |
| January 18, 2024 | |
We updated the | January 17, 2024 | |
You can save your credit or debit card details for Amazon Web Services accounts with Amazon Web Services India Private Limited. | December 18, 2023 | |
You can view your cost categories by using different cost types. | December 14, 2023 | |
Updated documentation | For an overview of your Amazon cloud financial management data, use the Amazon Billing and Cost Management widgets on the Billing and Cost Management home page. See the following updates: | November 26, 2023 |
Updated documentation | Learn about the Free Tier API: See the following updates: | November 26, 2023 |
Updated documentation | The See the following updates: | November 14, 2023 |
Updated information about verifying your credit card payment method. | November 8, 2023 | |
Updates for Amazon Web Services India Private Limited customer verification | Amazon India customers can verify their identity information when signing up for an Amazon Web Services account. | October 27, 2023 |
You can use the Billing preferences page to activate or deactivate credit sharing, and discount sharing for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans for member accounts in Amazon Organizations. | October 19, 2023 | |
Updated documentation, including example Amazon CLI commands, definitions, and notifications for the Amazon Price List Bulk API and Amazon Price List Query API. | October 3, 2023 | |
Added support for the Amazon Price List Query API in the China (Ningxia) Region. | September 28, 2023 | |
For Amazon Web Services accounts in Amazon Europe, you can link and verify your bank account in the Billing console. | September 15, 2023 | |
To ensure that your invoices are issued correctly, you can use the monthly billing checklist topic to review your billing information. | September 1, 2023 | |
Updated documentation | New documentation to migrate to IAM fine-grained actions To migrate your policies to the new IAM fine-grained actions, see the following topics: | August 23, 2023 |
You can use the Last updated date and Last used month fields to learn when your cost allocation tags were last updated or used. | August 23, 2023 | |
| July 26, 2023 | |
You can use the table on the Payments page to view credit memos that were partially applied. | July 25, 2023 | |
| July 17, 2023 | |
Updated documentation for the Amazon Billing console. | June 22, 2023 | |
Updated documentation | Added tag support for purchase orders You can add tags to your purchase orders. For more information, see the following topics: | June 19, 2023 |
Added a new feature to manage PIX payment methods in Brazil. | June 6, 2023 | |
Added the consolidated billing feature for accounts that are invoiced through the Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (Amazon Europe) entity. | June 6, 2023 | |
Added documentation for how to request shorter PDF invoices. | May 30, 2023 | |
Added the Usage Type dimension for Amazon Billing. | May 16, 2023 | |
| March 6, 2023 | |
Added a new customer carbon footprint tool feature to view estimates of the carbon emissions associated with your Amazon products and services. | February 28, 2022 | |
Added a new payment profiles feature to assign automatic payment methods to invoices. | February 17, 2022 | |
AWSPurchaseOrdersServiceRolePolicy – Update to an existing policy | Amazon Billing removed unnecessary permissions. | November 18, 2021 |
Amazon Billing started tracking changes for Amazon managed policies | Amazon Billing started tracking changes for its Amazon managed policies. | November 18, 2021 |
Split the Billing and Cost Management user guide and aligned the feature details into the Billing guide and Amazon Cost Management guide to align with the console. | October 20, 2021 | |
Added a new Amazon Cost Anomaly Detection feature that uses machine learning to continuously monitor your cost and usage to detect unusual spends. | December 16, 2020 | |
Added a new purchase order feature to configure how your purchases are reflected on your invoices. | October 15, 2020 | |
Added a new Amazon Budgets actions feature to run an action on your behalf when a budget exceeds a certain cost or usage threshold. | October 15, 2020 | |
Added a new feature to map Amazon costs into meaningful categories. | April 20, 2020 | |
Added a new feature that enables you to use your tax registration information with your linked accounts. | March 19, 2020 | |
Added a new payment method that allows China CNY customers using Amazon to pay their overdue payments using China Bank Redirect. | February 20, 2020 | |
Added a new security chapter that provides information about various security controls. Former "Controlling Access" chapter contents have been migrated here. | February 6, 2020 | |
Migrated and reorganized all Amazon Cost and Usage Reports content to a separate user guide. | January 21, 2020 | |
Added a new reporting functionality using Amazon Budgets reports. | June 27, 2019 | |
Cost Explorer reports now include normalized units. | February 5, 2019 | |
Amazon changed how they apply credits. | January 17, 2019 | |
Amazon India customers can now enable the auto-charge ability for their payments. | December 20, 2018 | |
Added a new endpoint for Amazon Price List Service. | December 17, 2018 | |
Updated the Cost Explorer UI. | November 15, 2018 | |
Added the ability to upload the data from an Amazon Cost and Usage Reports into Athena. | November 15, 2018 | |
Added the ability to see the history of a budget. | November 13, 2018 | |
Expanded RI budgets to Amazon OpenSearch Service. | November 8, 2018 | |
Added the SEPA Direct Debit payment method. | October 25, 2018 | |
Added On-Demand capacity reservations | Added documentation about Amazon Cost and Usage Reports line items that apply to capacity reservations. | October 25, 2018 |
Updated the Amazon Budgets UI and workflow. | October 23, 2018 | |
Added new columns to the Cost Explorer RI recommendations. | October 18, 2018 | |
More actions added to CloudTrail logging. | October 18, 2018 | |
Expanded RI reports to Amazon OpenSearch Service. | October 10, 2018 | |
New Amazon Cost and Usage Reports columns | New columns added to the Amazon Cost and Usage Reports. | September 27, 2018 |
Cost Explorer now provides a walkthrough for the most common functionality. | September 24, 2018 | |
Added additional CloudTrail events. | August 13, 2018 | |
Added the ACH Direct Debit payment method. | July 24, 2018 | |
Updated the Amazon Free Tier Widget. | July 19, 2018 | |
Added RI purchase recommendations for additional services in Cost Explorer. | July 11, 2018 | |
Added RI purchase recommendations for linked accounts in Cost Explorer. | June 27, 2018 | |
Added support for Amazon Cost and Usage Reports data refreshes | Amazon Cost and Usage Reports can now update after finalization if Amazon applies refunds, credits, or support fees to an account. | June 20, 2018 |
Added support for CloudTrail event logging. | June 7, 2018 | |
Added Budgets templates for Amazon CloudFormation. | May 22, 2018 | |
Updated the RI allocation behavior size-flexible RI for linked accounts. | May 9, 2018 | |
Added RI coverage alerts. | May 8, 2018 | |
Unblend linked account bills | Linked account bills no longer show the blended rate for the organization. | May 7, 2018 |
Added the ability to bulk edit tax settings. | April 25, 2018 | |
Added Amazon RDS Recommendations to Cost Explorer. | April 19, 2018 | |
Added a new Cost Explorer dimension and Amazon Cost and Usage Reports line item | Added a new Cost Explorer dimension and Amazon Cost and Usage Reports line item. | March 27, 2018 |
Added access to the Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) purchase recommendations via the Cost Explorer API. | March 20, 2018 | |
Added RI coverage for Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and ElastiCache | Reserved Instance (RI) coverage for Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and ElastiCache . | March 13, 2018 |
Added | February 22, 2018 | |
Added Amazon Free Tier alerts that enable you stay under the free tier limits. | December 13, 2017 | |
Added RI recommendations based on previous usage. | November 20, 2017 | |
Activated API access Cost Explorer. | November 20, 2017 | |
Added notifications for additional services. | November 10, 2017 | |
Expanded RI reports to Amazon RDS, Redshift, and ElastiCache. | November 10, 2017 | |
Updated preferences so that Amazon credits and RI discount sharing can be turned off. | November 6, 2017 | |
New Amazon S3 console | Updated for the new Amazon S3 console. | September 15, 2017 |
Added notifications for when RI utilization drops below a preset percentage-based threshold. | August 21, 2017 | |
Released a new Cost Explorer UI. | August 16, 2017 | |
Amazon Web Services Marketplace data integration | Added Amazon Web Services Marketplace so that customers can see their data reflected in all billing artifacts, including the Bills page, Cost Explorer, and more. | August 10, 2017 |
Updated the consolidated billing with organizations behavior. | June 20, 2017 | |
Linked account access and usage type groups in Amazon Budgets | Added support for creating cost and usage budgets based on specific usage types and usage type groups, and extended budget creation capabilities to all account types. | June 19, 2017 |
The Amazon Price List API now offers regional offer files for each service. | April 20, 2017 | |
You can now filter Cost Explorer reports by additional advanced options, such as refunds, credits, RI upfront fees, RI recurring charges, and support charges. | March 22, 2017 | |
You can now track your Reserved Instance (RI) coverage in Cost Explorer. | March 20, 2017 | |
You can now filter Cost Explorer reports by tenancy, platform, and the Amazon EC2 Spot and Scheduled Reserved Instance purchase options. | March 20, 2017 | |
Amazon India users can now use Cost Explorer and Budgets. | March 6, 2017 | |
Cost Explorer supports grouping for both cost and usage data, enabling customers to identify their cost drivers by cross-referencing their cost and usage charts. | February 24, 2017 | |
You can now track your monthly Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) utilization in Cost Explorer. | December 16, 2016 | |
You can now track your daily Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) utilization in Cost Explorer. | December 15, 2016 | |
You can now activate the Amazon generated tag | December 12, 2016 | |
You can now exclude tagged resources from your Cost Explorer reports. | November 18, 2016 | |
Amazon QuickSight integration for Amazon Cost and Usage Reports | Amazon Cost and Usage Reports now provide customized queries for uploading your data into Amazon QuickSight. | November 15, 2016 |
You can now use Amazon Budgets to track usage data. | October 20, 2016 | |
You can now use Cost Explorer to visualize your costs by usage type groups. | September 15, 2016 | |
Improved Amazon Redshift integration for Amazon Cost and Usage Reports | Amazon Cost and Usage Reports now provide customized queries for uploading your data into Amazon Redshift. | August 18, 2016 |
You can now create and download Amazon Cost and Usage Reports. | December 16, 2015 | |
You can now download offer files that list the products, prices, and restrictions for a single Amazon service. | December 9, 2015 | |
You can now save Cost Explorer queries. | November 12, 2015 | |
You can now track how much of your free tier limit you've used. | August 12, 2015 | |
You can now manage your Amazon usage and costs using Amazon Budgets and cost forecasts. | June 29, 2015 | |
You can now manage your account settings and payment methods for an Amazon Web Services India Private Limited (Amazon India) account. | June 1, 2015 | |
You can now use Cost Explorer to visualize your costs by Availability Zone, API operation, purchase option, or multiple cost allocation tags. | February 19, 2015 | |
You can now change the currency associated with your credit card. | February 16, 2015 | |
You can now use Cost Explorer to visualize your costs by Amazon EC2 instance type or region. | January 5, 2015 | |
Revised and expanded Avoiding Unexpected Charges and Using the Free Tier. | August 19, 2014 | |
You can now enable Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and federated users to access and manage your account settings, view your bills, and perform cost management. For example, you can grant people in your finance department full access to the financial setup and control of your Amazon account, without having to give them access to your production Amazon environment. | July 7, 2014 | |
Cost Explorer provides a visualization of your Amazon costs that enables you to analyze your costs in multiple ways. | April 8, 2014 | |
Version 2.0 published | The Amazon Billing and Cost Management User Guide has been reorganized and rewritten to use the new Billing and Cost Management console. | October 25, 2013 |